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There's a new Linux driver for the Guitar Hero Live (PS3) and Wii U Guitar devices

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you have a Guitar Hero Live (PS3) 6-fret guitar or perhaps one from the Wii U that you want to use on Linux? Prepare to dust them off.

The Elder Scrolls: Arena open source game engine OpenTESArena advances on

By Liam Squires-Hand,
More classics continuing to live on?! Yes please, thanks to the power of open source and dedicated fans The Elder Scrolls: Arena has a modern game engine that continues maturing.

Try not to destroy nature in Epicinium, a free and open source strategy game out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Just released today is Epicinium, a competitive strategy game that tries to get you to think a little differently as you fight while trying not to destroy the environment.

Vircadia is an in-development free and open source decentralized 3D social space

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Remember social games like Second Life? Vircadia, was created from a failed spiritual successor to it and it's free and open source too.

Thrive, the free and open source evolution game has a massive new release up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After switching to Godot Engine back in May, things seem to be going really well for the free and open source evolution sim Thrive, as they have a huge release out now.

ScummVM to merge in ResidualVM, adding support for a number of 3D titles

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While the ScummVM project was originally meant to cover 2D classics, ResidualVM was the companion project for 3D games and now they're going to combine into ScummVM.

The compatibility layer Wine sees a 5.19 development release out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Continuing to chase Windows as a platform, the compatibility layer Wine has another development release available now with Wine 5.19.

Open source infinite shape-factory sim 'shapez.io' has a major new release up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
shapez.io lets you build up a huge factory with an ever-expanding map, it's open source and a massive new update was recently put up expanding how deep it goes.

Fast-paced action-roguelike 'Burning Knight' goes fully open source

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After recently releasing the first major post-release update, the developer of the action-roguelike Burning Knight decided to open source the whole thing.

Godot Engine pulls in another full-time developer to work on web infrastructure

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sounds like things continue going well for Godot Engine, as a free and open source game engine it's made huge leaps over the last year and they're pulling in more developers.

D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer DXVK release 1.7.2 is up

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Developer Philip Rebohle announced today the release of DXVK 1.7.2 to further improve the D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan translation layer.

Cosmic Frontier: Override now has its open source Kestrel Game Engine online

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Cosmic Frontier: Override is the upcoming remaster of the classic Escape Velocity Override, and just as the team behind it promised during the Kickstarter - the game engine is now open source.

Unity Technologies announce 'Open Projects', building games in Unity that are open source

By Liam Squires-Hand,
This is brilliant! Unity Technologies creators of the Unity game engine, which is ridiculously popular with indie developers, have started a series of open source game development projects.

OBS Studio adds in better noise suppression thanks to RNNoise in the 26.0 release out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Free and open source video recording and live streaming software OBS Studio version 26.0 is out now.

Grand strategy empire builder 'Arcane Fortune' has a new release and it went open source

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Arcane Fortune is a game we briefly highlighted at the start of August as one that is inspired by the likes of Civilization, SimCity and Dwarf Fortress and it's getting bigger again.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The latest and greatest in open source graphics drivers has released with Mesa 20.2.0, although you should wait on it if you're after a stable experience.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Squires-Hand,
OpenRCT2 is the free and open source game engine reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, adding in many advanced featured and cross-platform support.

Play more classics including one from 1976 with a new ScummVM release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ScummVM, the awesome all-in-one solution for playing tons of classic adventure and RPGs has a brand new release available which expands the games supported.

Warzone 2100 to get a graphics boost with Vulkan support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 continues advancing, with a big graphics rendering overhaul recently merged in ready for the next release.

Graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' to gain Vulkan support in the 2.3 release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As another win for both open standards and modern graphics APIs, the classic and continually improving open source graphics rendering engine OGRE will get Vulkan support in the upcoming 2.3 release.
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